More facts have emerged to suggest probable reason President Donald Trump fired the White House Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon.
Bannon is a far-right architect of his 2016 election victory and a driving force behind his anti-globalisation and pro-nationalist agenda.
Mr. Bannon gave an interview earlier this week that was seen to undercut the President. Critics have long accused Mr Bannon of being anti-Semitic. Democrats have welcomed Mr. Bannon’s departure
A favourite in the farther-right portions of the Republican Party, Mr. Bannon pushed Trump to follow through on some of his most contentious campaign promises, including a travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority nations and his decision to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders announced Bannon’s exit in a statement.
“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” the statement said.
Bannon has already returned to Breitbart News, the far-right publication he led before joining Trump’s election campaign, and chaired an evening editorial meeting.
In his first public remarks after being fired, Bannon said he still backed Trump, but expressed doubt about the administration’s future without him.
“I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents, on Capitol Hill, in the media and in corporate America,” Bannon told Bloomberg News.
The 63-year-old former Navy officer, Goldman Sachs investment banker and Hollywood movie producer said his departure from the White House signaled a major shift for the Trump agenda.
“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” he told the conservative Weekly Standard.
“I just think his ability to get anything done — particularly the bigger things, like the wall, the bigger, broader things that we fought for, it’s just gonna be that much harder.”
Breitbart published an article lauding Bannon’s return to the publication.
“The populist-nationalist movement got a lot stronger today,” editor-in-chief Alex Marlow said.
“Breitbart gained an executive chairman with his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda.”
Earlier, a senior Breitbart editor posted a dramatic one-word warning about Bannon’s firing.